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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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An individual chooses and makes himself.
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
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When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.
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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.
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[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
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For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
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She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.
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The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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